You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.